HI!
This is going to be difficult, i'm sure of it.
I have an Acer aspire 5050 laptop that is vista capable, but came with XP on it.. Well it was my friends laptop for school, but became extremely corrupted with virus to where as soon as it booted up you got a blue screen with all kinds of fatal error and restart to open safe mode and all this, you automatically had to restart it. I finally got it to open in safe mode, install an anivir antivirus, and ran the virus thing but it only came back with 1 Warning, and none of the virus i knew were on there, i can't update it cuz it won't give me an internet connection. LONG STORY SHORT, i tried everything to format it, to bypass things whatever. the next step was trying to upgrade it to vista, because i knrew it gave the option to format it and whatnot.
I have a windows vista home premium update from XP, etc disk. So i put it in, started it up and it said that i'd have to run it from windows, well i couldn't get to windows to run it, so i safe moded it put in the disk and attempted to run it. It gave 2 options whether i wanted to keep the files but just upgrade to vista, and one where i could just install vista and blah, but it kept an windows.old file on the harddrive? it said you wouldn't be able to access your old OS, but i didn't care.. i just want everything whiped clean and vista on it. once again, i tried that.. and it said to restart. So i restarted, now everytime i restart it shows the acer screen, then immediately says " A DISK READ ERROR OCCURED Press ctrl+alt+del to restart.
and thats alllll i can do.
when the acer screen comes on, you can pres f2 for the setup, i did that.. but i can't change the boot order or anything. you can also press f12 and enable that multiboot logging stuff, and it gives the option to boot from cdrom, from ide-something and network.. but anyone i try, it still pops up with the disk read error thing.
soooo..
WHAT CAN I POSSIBLY DO!?
how can i wipe this clean? how can i get past that at all...
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TY! please help
~nefie